Random comments on interesting posts within the agile software development community...

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Agile Maturity Model & Scrum Success Story...

I wanted to make sure my readers had the chance to review these two links, so I'll share them here:

Ryan Martens over at Rally talks about IBM's (Scott Ambler's) proposed Agile Maturity Model. It's a good read, I agree almost perfectly with his statements. My take on these topics is this: once you box and define agile, you lose the magic. Agile is about inspect and adapt. Definition for the mainstream removes the adapt part (it just sets a straight goal) and then inspection is unnecessary because the definition allows you to falsely believe you've attained your goal. (Hint: The goal keeps moving as you get better!)